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(or Historical Guide to England)
I just finished this book. The Swedish version. Don't know if there is a English version.
The last page was nice. It attempted sum the English (or British) people like this (roughly translated):
"They [the Britons] remain in soul and heart peaceful, obedient and tolerant and are persistent in their strife for compromise instead of confrontation."
Yes! Yet another man arrested for spamming
This the first case such case with this new law in US state Virginia.
"Virginia authorities said on Thursday they had arrested and charged a North Carolina man for sending "spam" e-mail in the first use of a new state law that could bring penalties of up to 20 years in prison. "
20
years!?!
Bubble Bobble, Super Mario Bros, Excitebike, 1942, and more...
This is the first time I've seen a NES emulator online before. It's a Java applet so you'll need a web browser that supports it. Sadly the controls aren't configurable. I wish they were so I could have the arrowkeys under my left hand and the A- and B-button under my right.
Got the server running again. Long story. Now I'm about to upgrade the web server software to use Zope 2.7.0 and the latest Python.
The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use
I just love cookbooks. A cookbook doesn't have to be about food you know. This one is about little useful tips on how to use your Linux computer.
From this I learnt how to find all really large files which is useful if you want to find out why causes your harddrive to be so surprisingly full:
$ find /usr/local -size +10000k [RET]
Amazon.co.uk (and probably likewise with .com) publishes a list of the Top 1000 reviewers.
The number one reviewer is Jason Parkes. He's written 709 reviews. Some people have written even more, but look how lengthy all of Jason's review are
From a very quick look it looks like Jason's reviews are almost always 5 out of 5 stars. Maybe that has something to do with why he's at the top of the list.
Makes you think... How much time do these guys have on their hands?
Looks like USA's next ambassador to Sweden (Teel Bivins) will be a "a rancher and Amarillo Republican" who also contributed $100,000 to the Bush's presidential campaign.
Great! I wonder if he'll bring some guns with him??
A fun little Flash application that lets you draw your own Picasso heads and then to upload them to a public gallery.
Some of the pictures in the gallery are quite impressively "Picassian". What was quite amazing was that some 5 minutes after I added mine I had to click back at least 20-25 times to find mine again. That means that they get about 5 new pictures into the gallery every minute. Must be very heavy load on that server.
Let me know if you find any really good ones. E.g. one with a lot of effort
This is an article about a group of developers who had a task to do but hadn't chosen what programming language to use. The alternatives they had to choose from were C, PHP, Perl, Java and Python; and the requirements where these:
It's so suited for Python that it almost sounds as if they wrote the requirements after the choice. But that's just how Python is.
Have you ever wondered how the metro/underground/subway corridors look like in Moscow? I have. Now I know from looking at these fascinating pictures